What happens when a volcano explodes with the force of 200 megatons? The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 was so powerful that it wiped out entire communities, created massive tsunamis, and altered Earth’s ...

Here, we've ranked the deadliest eruptions in history. Mount Pelée (1902) Death toll: 30,000 It’s considered the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century. Krakatoa (1883) Death toll ...

August 1883 saw the world tremble with the eruption of Krakatau, a volcano in the Sunda Strait connecting the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean. The Krakatau eruption had an explosive force of a ...

“SIXTEEN volcanoes now working between the spot where Krakatoa was before and Sebesie.” Such was one of the first reports which was sent by cable to Singapore, and which we heard at Pontiana ...

Both Mt. Vesuvius (79 AD) and Mt. St. Helens (1980) were VEI-5s. VEI-6s are colossal eruptions every 100 years. The 1883 explosion of Krakatoa was the most famous of these. VEI-7 eruptions occur ...

Volcano eruptions ... of Mount Pelée in 1902. It was on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean and it killed around 30,000 people. Another of Indonesia's volcanoes, its eruption in 1883 ...

THE eruption of Krakatau, from May 20 to the end of August 1883, which killed the vegetation of the three islands of the Krakatau group and destroyed some two thirds of the island of Krakatau ...